SectionEx
Version
1.6.8 (last update on Jun 4, 2010)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
175
License
GPLv2 or later
Commercial
Type
Views
195259
Date Added
23 February 2008
Editor's Note
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For community support, discussion and feature request, please visit http://stackideas.com/forum/
Updated 1.6.8
+ Added option to bypass template override
# Fixed template override issues.
# Fixed issue where page title didnot show when item menu setting (system) enabled the option 'show_title'.
# Fixed incompatibility with ContentHelperQuery in Joomla's com_content.
Updated 1.6.7
+ Added category id exclusion. You can now exclude certain categories from the section listing.
+ Added multiple row styling.
+ Couple of fixes since 1.6.6
Updated 1.6.6
+ Fixed security vulnerability. All users prior to 1.6.6 is advised to upgrade to avoid any inconveniences.
Updated 1.6.3
+ Added 5 new templates.
+ Added new RSS support for each category.
+ Added user timezone support.
+ Added new default configuration in the back end
+ Added ajax auto complete feature when filtering author names
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This is an extremely effective plugin. This has brought order to my sites organization.
Core SECTION LIST LAYOUTS are poorly done in Joomla 1.5 and this definitely makes up for it. While I have quibbles with a certain effusiveness in function and wordage, (the developer is not of the parsimony of Hemmingway :) the component can be customized to meet any need.
You can set parameters to make simple lists of categories in a section or all the way up to elaborately expansive tables. This is a must for any publisher speed demon as you can view the categorization (and relationship) of all your articles and then drill down into their content all from one page. This way you can render a page that can encompass an entire section of a site without having to first bother with highly granular menu definitions.
It's far better than a site map (as you don't need to over invest time in menus) and you see all the articles. This feature and functionality should be in the core product. Version 1.5.0.8 is the best yet.
Well done Robert!
You can set parameters to make simple lists of categories in a section or all the way up to elaborately expansive tables. This is a must for any publisher speed demon as you can view the categorization (and relationship) of all your articles and then drill down into their content all from one page. This way you can render a page that can encompass an entire section of a site without having to first bother with highly granular menu definitions.
It's far better than a site map (as you don't need to over invest time in menus) and you see all the articles. This feature and functionality should be in the core product. Version 1.5.0.8 is the best yet.
Well done Robert!
I've been searching for something like this for sometime. Great Job!
This would receive 10 stars if it had some functionality to manipulate the images in the articles as well. such as creating a thumnail of the images in the articles and putting them next to the listings.
Nontheless, this gets 5 stars from me. Thanks!
This would receive 10 stars if it had some functionality to manipulate the images in the articles as well. such as creating a thumnail of the images in the articles and putting them next to the listings.
Nontheless, this gets 5 stars from me. Thanks!
Had this installed, configured and running in about 5 minutes. It was exactly what I was looking for, and had no easy way to accomplish without a lot of extra work, until I found this.
For Roberts first Joomla component, he hit a home run!
Some future enhancements that may be nice...
1) Option to show actual "description" from the article, instead of the article; when you 'Expand Description'.
2) Show all -or- only "X" number of articles, under each component.
3) If the article is displayed. - show only "X" number of characters from the article.
4) If the article is displayed - enable/disable images.
Thanks for the great component!
--Dan
For Roberts first Joomla component, he hit a home run!
Some future enhancements that may be nice...
1) Option to show actual "description" from the article, instead of the article; when you 'Expand Description'.
2) Show all -or- only "X" number of articles, under each component.
3) If the article is displayed. - show only "X" number of characters from the article.
4) If the article is displayed - enable/disable images.
Thanks for the great component!
--Dan
Owner's reply
First of all, thanks for your review. As to your suggestions:
1) It actually does display only the description (the intro text, this is). It actually always did. If you don't believe compare the SectionEx output to the output of a build in component (i.e. section-blog layout).
2) I added some kind of "pagination" a few versions ago. Unfortunately real pagination is still on the TODO list.
3) This would be hard to accomplish. Intro text is just a HTML string. In other words it consists of text AND HTML formatting tags. If I would simply cut the string in the middle for example, the resulting HTML would be invalid as eventually some closing HTML tags would be missing.
4) You can now do this.
So simple to setup and yet so many options for individual configuration. Works out of the box and gives you cool logical options to list your sections / categories /articles the way you need them to be listed.
Works as a teaser to readers, and I guess it is a tasty desert for the search engines as well!
Works as a teaser to readers, and I guess it is a tasty desert for the search engines as well!
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